{"id":127,"date":"2004-08-28T09:17:35","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T09:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=127"},"modified":"2004-08-28T09:17:35","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T09:17:35","slug":"meet-sammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/08\/28\/meet-sammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/08\/2004.08.28.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1005\" title=\"2004.08.28\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/08\/2004.08.28-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Last Sunday I harvested DRGs from a batch of 6 day old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmca.org\">rats<\/a>, and there was one left over. The options were limited: either dispatch him humanely since his mom was already gone, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratfanclub.org\/orphans.html\">take him home<\/a> for Melody to play with. After five days of hand feeding human baby formula via syringe every 4 hrs (luckily Melody&#8217;s on vacation this week) and playing Miyazaki tunes in the background, Sammy has gotten fat and sassy at 11 days old. It&#8217;s pretty surprising, given that we weren&#8217;t even sure he was going to make even one night without his mom. This has been the only work highlight in the last few weeks. Otherwise, I&#8217;m being flogged at work, trying to submit a manuscript by Sunday. There has been some time to enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonusa.com\/visitor\/resdet.php?cat=Dining&amp;cat_seqnum=13&amp;type=event&amp;seqnum=9680\">Restaurant Week<\/a>, however. On Thursday Melody and I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthemboston.com\">Anthem<\/a>, which offered a very creative 3-course meal, preceded by an amuse and followed by a take-home treat, for just $30 each. Lucky for us, some of the other participating restaurants have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonusa.com\/visitor\/resdet.php?cat=Dining&amp;cat_seqnum=13&amp;type=event&amp;seqnum=14086\">extended the opportunity<\/a> for prix-fixe meals, so we&#8217;ll be taking advantage of that in the next several days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I harvested DRGs from a batch of 6 day old rats, and there was one left over. The options were limited: either dispatch him humanely since his mom was already gone, or take him home for Melody to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2004\/08\/28\/meet-sammy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}